Summarizing. Summarizing involves putting the main idea(s) into your own words, including only the main point(s). Although you are using your own words, it is still necessary to attribute the ...

Neither example 1 nor example 2 amounts to a summary of the original passage. A summary necessarily involves fewer details than a paraphrase. It steps back from the passage and focuses only on its ...

An example of this is natural language question answering, where starting from a seed set of questions used to train the question answering system, we can expand this set with diverse paraphrases.